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As someone that has been paying taxes for over 45 years, I am weary of the “need more funding” narrative. I am more than happy to pay my fair share of taxes. What is not appetizing is how much of the sizable tax receipts are spent poorly by elected and appointed officials at all levels of government. President Trump effectively “passed over” the CDC, FDA and other “establishment public health institutions” to find expeditious solutions for detection and treatment of the COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, by calling on private industry to mobilize and expedite detection and treatment more effectively and faster than our “establishment institutions”.
As a taxpayer, I want what most taxpayers want. BANG FOR MY BUCK! I want tax receipts used as cost-effectively as possible with minimal corruption and waste. That has never been a priority for public anything. Education in Indiana is another glaring example. Teachers protest for increased compensation for a 180 day a year contract (compared to 250 days a year for most of us) … and then have the nerve to demand there be no performance metrics for what they deliver. That’s right, just THROW MORE MONEY AT IT WITH NO REGARD FOR OUTCOME OR PERFORMANCE.
A lot more citizens could be helped a great deal more if we stopped listening to the narrative’s about “woefully underfunded” and rankings of how much money a state spends. If government spent our dollars more wisely and prudently, rather than focusing on the yearly increases of funding levels, we could help citizens prosper more than we do.
How about rankings on performance for what is spent? One example is Mitch Daniels holding the line on tuition at Purdue University for a seventh straight year. A state funded, world-class, higher research university delivers a world-class education for a price that does not continually increase, like nearly all other publicly funded universities.
Let’s stop the “throw more money at it” narrative, and move up to the “maximize the bang for the buck” narrative.